Four superlative stage adaptations by contemporary playwrights, giving bold new interpretations of classic novels

This volume, relaunching the Frontline Intelligence series, contains stage adaptations by contemporary dramatists of well-known, well-loved classics. Included are Jane Austen’s Emma by Michael Fry, John Cleland’s The Life and Times of Fanny Hill by April De Angelis, Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations by John Clifford and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss by Helen Edmundson. The introduction by Michael Fry discusses the issue of adapting classics in context.